The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cater
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suter, Gillingham
Abstract notes, do not cite: Willow had overcompensatory growth responses to biomass removal. While growth increased and remained high at all clipping treatment levels, tannin production initially increased at moderate levels of clipping and decreased after repeated clipping…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds
A total of 5,597 photo points was systematically located on 1:60,000-scale high altitude photographs of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska; photo interpretation was used to classify the vegetation at each grid position. Of the total grid points, 12.3 percent were classified as…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Causes of low calf recruitment in the Southern Alaska Peninsula Caribou Herd and recent herd history
The purposes of this report are to review the past population dynamics of the herd and report on recent field investigations conducted on the range of the SAPCH [Southern Alaska Peninsula Caribou Herd], including those accomplished on the calving grounds from 29 May through 16…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz
The boreal forest of North America is especially liable to destruction by fires. It is a region in which forest fires have been extremely common and wide spreading. Lightning is certainly one of the causes of fires but man, both aboriginal and white, has been an even more…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
This report gives the history of spruce beetle activity in Alaska from 1920 - 1989. Maps are included, as is an extensive Alaska spruce beetle bibliography.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
This report is in the form of a table presenting insects impacting Alaskan forests, their hosts, general location of activity and general remarks.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
A field study of reindeer-range relationships on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea was made during the summer of 1957. Population counts showed that the reindeer herd had increased from the original stocking of 29 animals in 1944, to number approximately 1,350 animals in…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gasaway, Boertje, Grangaard, Kelleyhouse, Stephenson, Larsen
(Partial) We help resolve 3 major problems facing wildlife managers and wildlife users of northern ecosystems: 1) defining what factors limit moose (Alces alces) at low densities in lightly exploited systems, 2) achieving consensus on potential moose harvest yields, and 3)…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacCracken, Viereck
This study was undertaken to estimate the short-term effects of fire on plant response and moose (Alces alces Miller) browse following the Rosie Creek fire near Fairbanks, Alaska. The fire consumed forests of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michc.), paper birch (Betula…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lavender, Parish, Johnson, Montgomery, Vyse, Willis, Winston
The book provides silviculturalists with a broad reference to the science and technology of reforestation in British Columbia, the single most diverse forest region in North America. It includes experience gained from practical reforestation projects and from scientific studies…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donaldson, Paul
This user's guide is an introductory manual for using the 1988 version (Burgan 1988) of the National Fire-Danger Rating System on an IBM PC or compatible computer. NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten, Werner
When white spruce is infested with spruce beetle broods, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), more beetles are produced than when Lutz and Sitka spruce are infested. In spite of host suitability differences, outbreaks of the spruce beetle have been more frequent and severe in stands…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hjeljord, Hovik, Pedersen
We observed forage habitat selection in radio-collared moose at feeding sites in southeast Norway. Use of older forest increased from spring to autumn. Birch Betula spp. and bilberry Vaccinium mrytillus accounted for c. 75% of the diet. Occurrence of important forage plants,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Henry, Gunn
During the summer of 1987, 500-1000 caribou became stranded on Rideout Island in Bathurst Inlet, Northwest Territories. The 40 km2 island did not have sufficient forage to support the animals until freeze-up, and the caribou eventually died from malnutrition after severely…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Shaw, Hansen
Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach) has been declining and dying for a long, but undetermined, span of time in remote and undisturbed forests of southeast Alaska. Aerial photographs indicate mortality was widespread by 1927. The dates of death for…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Hansen, Shaw
Alaska-cedar, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach, has been dying in undisturbed forests throughout southeast Alaska for the last 100 years. To determine if decline spreads, boundaries of mortality at seven sites with decline were mapped using aerial photographs taken in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanson
The interior of Alaska is a vast area characterized by cold soils which are often underlain by permafrost; a continental climate with great extremes in temperature; and the taiga, a pattern of boreal forest and tundra which is largely the result of past wildfires (Viereck, 1973…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Zackrisson
Successional processes within northern Swedish boreal forest are investigated for the last 2000 years by analysis of pollen, charcoal fragments and insect remains preserved in a deep mor humus layer on a small island in a large lake. Frequent disturbances by fire, blow-down,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bonan, Shugart, Urban
A gap model of environmental processes and vegetation patterns in boreal forests was used to examine the sensitivity of permafrost and permafrostfree forests in interior Alaska to air temperature and precipitation changes. These analyses indicated that in the uplands of interior…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker
Prescribed burns usually have minimal hydrologic impact on watersheds because the surface vegetation, litter, and forest floor is only partially burned. Wildfire can, however, have a pronounced effect on basic hydrologic processes, leading to the increased sensitivity of the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bonan
A model of carbon and nitrogen cycling developed with ecological relationships from upland boreal forests in interior Alaska was tested with forest structure and forest floor data from several bioclimatic regions of the North American boreal forest. Test forests included black…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber
Vegetative reproduction, above-ground biomass and nutrient pools, and litterfall and substrate nutrient conditions were evaluated in eastern Ontario immature (age 20 years) aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx. and P. grandidentata (Michx.) ecosystems which had been subjected to the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS